Wife and daughter need to get to Yorkshire - Simple?

[Olivergt]

Shakermaker said:

Olivergt said:

I know they have different gallons, do they have different miles as well? Are they bigger or smaller than our miles?

Depends on the exchange rate

Brexit has thrown some uncertainty in the mix - I saw one place only offering 300 kilometres for 280 miles! Outrageous.

I think if you convert from L/100km to US MPG it still works out roughly the same though, but only if their miles are the same size as our miles, otherwise you have to convert the other way...

I've Googled, but can't find anything on their miles being different? Maybe it's only a couple of cm's?

[Jasandjules]

The only logical solution for the OP is to hire a chauffeur and a Maybach.....

[Vaud]

The mile is an English unit of length of linear measure equal to 5,280 feet, or 1,760 yards, and standardised as exactly 1,609.344 metres by international agreement in 1959.

[Croutons]

Vaud said:

The mile is an English unit of length of linear measure equal to 5,280 feet, or 1,760 yards, and standardised as exactly 1,609.344 metres by international agreement in 1959.

Or 1608.344 metres further than the OP’s wife is capable of driving.

[Leins]

Speed Badger said:

I once drove from Kent to Hull in a 1990 Ford Orion.

It wasn't even a Ghia.

Won't anyone think of the imagine?! It's all about the imagine!

[over_the_hill]

Dick Turpin managed it overnight on a horse !!

(Actually he probably didn't)

[Durzel]

Every time I see a new post on this thread I wonder if it's the OP come back to say that it "was easier to buy another car in the end", or something, and I end up disappointed.

[GAjon]

over_the_hill said:

Dick Turpin managed it overnight on a horse !!

(Actually he probably didn't)

And if you were to believe breweries and landlords stopped at every pub on route and within a twenty (English) mile radius.

[BrabusMog]

GAjon said:

over_the_hill said:

Dick Turpin managed it overnight on a horse !!

(Actually he probably didn't)

And if you were to believe breweries and landlords stopped at every pub on route and within a twenty (English) mile radius.

At least he wore a mask

[RedSwede]

Come on, have some sympathy. For this guy, this might be (if not a wind up) his actual life

Imagine having your life intertwined with this level of complexity. I mean, all the usual difficulties of life, plus this. Doesn't even bear thinking about.

[SpeckledJim]

RedSwede said:

Come on, have some sympathy. For this guy, this might be (if not a wind up) his actual life

Imagine having your life intertwined with this level of complexity. I mean, all the usual difficulties of life, plus this. Doesn't even bear thinking about.

Nah, you've got to be cruel to be cruel.

Tis the PH motto.

[AlexRS2782]

BrabusMog said:

GAjon said:

over_the_hill said:

Dick Turpin managed it overnight on a horse !!

(Actually he probably didn't)

And if you were to believe breweries and landlords stopped at every pub on route and within a twenty (English) mile radius.

At least he wore a mask

How do we know the OP doesn't too? Based on this thread (and the demands of his wife) he could well be the submissive and wearing a gimp mask after hours

Durzel said:

Every time I see a new post on this thread I wonder if it's the OP come back to say that it "was easier to buy another car in the end", or something, and I end up disappointed.

OP has returned to PH but appears to be dodging this thread Most recent post was about an hour ago, where he bumped a thread that was last posted on back in 2013 with a news article link from 2012.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[T-195]

Is the Leyton Orient Express still running?

[bigandclever]

He was happy back then

[sanguinary]

sanguinary said:

I've just agreed an appointment with a customer for tomorrow in Southampton. I'm worried, having read this thread, that my journey from Newcastle isn't going to be as straightforward as first thought. Should I take some spare drivers, or even a spare car, just in case?? Perhaps I should buy a house down there in case the hotel messes my booking up... Yours, worried, from somewhere further North of Yorkshire.

Well, I made it. A tough slog resulting in me stopping for coffee at Woodall Services. I didn’t take a spare car in the end, although that does mean I need to find some way to put more petrol into the car in the morning. Any ideas?

[JonChalk]

sanguinary said:

sanguinary said:

I've just agreed an appointment with a customer for tomorrow in Southampton. I'm worried, having read this thread, that my journey from Newcastle isn't going to be as straightforward as first thought. Should I take some spare drivers, or even a spare car, just in case?? Perhaps I should buy a house down there in case the hotel messes my booking up... Yours, worried, from somewhere further North of Yorkshire.

Well, I made it. A tough slog resulting in me stopping for coffee at Woodall Services. I didn’t take a spare car in the end, although that does mean I need to find some way to put more petrol into the car in the morning. Any ideas?

Ask your wife to drive down overnight with a boot full of jerry cans. Your daughter can keep her company / awake on the long drive.

[sanguinary]

Never thought of that. I’ll put it to her shortly. I’ll then see if my Dad can head down from Manchester, with some fuel, to get the other half back home again. Thanks, you’re a life saver!

[talksthetorque]

Ever get the feeling the wife doesn't like whoever's getting married?
After all, they live in Yorkshire, they must be horrendous.

[Speed Badger]

Why doesn't your wife buy a reasonably luxurious car here which your daughter can get insured on, then they drive it up and then sell it at the other end, trying to break even or even turn a profit. It could be like a Top Gear adventure!

Only stter.

My advice, take a Ford Orion, but make it a Ghia. And make sure the clutch isn't just a flattened foil disc like when you squash the foil of a Mr Kipling bakewell to make it flat. Although satisfying, it does not make a good clutch, Ford does it? And while we're on the subject - having to leave a towel in the car to dry the moisture from the INSIDE of the windscreen is maybe a tad irritating.

[Down and out]

I've done Berlin to Calais on a pogo stick in the rain, took a day but stopping every KFC to re-tighten my prosthetic leg helped.